Tuesday, June 28, 2016

A Trump Path to Victory???

After Brexit, a Trump Path to Victory

By Patrick
J. Buchanan

Some of us have long predicted the breakup of the European Union.
The Cousins appear to have just delivered the coup de grace.

While Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in
the EU, England voted for
independence. These people, with their unique history, language and culture,
want to write their own laws and rule themselves.

The English wish to remain who they are, and they do not want their country to
become, in Theodore Roosevelt's phrase, "a polyglot boarding house"
for the world.

From patriots of all nations, congratulations are in order.

It will all begin to unravel now, over there, and soon over here.

Across Europe, tribalism, of all strains, is resurgent. Not
only does the EU appear to be breaking up, countries appear about to break up.

Scotland will seek a second
referendum to leave the U.K. The French National
Front of Marine Le Pen and the Dutch Party for Freedom both want out of the EU.
As Scots seek to secede from the U.K., Catalonia seeks to secede from Spain, Veneto from Italy, and Flemish
nationalists from Belgium.

Ethnonationalism seems everywhere ascendant. Yet, looking back in history, is
this not the way the world has been going for some centuries now?

The disintegration of the EU into its component nations would follow, as
Vladimir Putin helpfully points out, the dissolution of the USSR into 15 nations, and
the breakup of Yugoslavia into seven.

Czechoslovakia lately split in two.
The Donbass seeks to secede from Ukraine. Is that so different
from Transnistria splitting off from Romania, Abkhazia and South Ossetia seceding from Georgia, and Chechnya seeking separation
from Russia?

After World War II came the disintegration of the French and British empires
and birth of dozens of new nations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. America returned the
Philippine islands to their people.

The previous century saw the collapse of the Spanish Empire and birth of a
score of new nations in our own hemisphere.

In Xi Jinping's China and Putin's Russia, nationalism is
rising, even as China seeks to repress
Uighur and Tibetan separatists.

People want to rule themselves, and be themselves, separate from all others.
Palestinians want their own nation. Israelis want "a Jewish state."

On Cyprus, Turks and Greeks
seem happier apart.

Kurds are fighting to secede from Turkey and Iraq, and perhaps soon
from Syria and Iran. Afghanistan appears to be
splintering into regions dominated by Pashtuns, Hazaras, Uzbeks and Tajiks.

In Bernie Sanders' fulminations against corporate and financial
elites one hears echoes of the radical leftist rhetoric in Greece and Italy against EU banking
elites.

And as "Brexit" swept the native-born English outside of multiracial,
multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual London, populist-nationalist
Donald Trump and antiestablishment Ted Cruz swept the native-born white working
and middle classes in the primaries.

In the past six months, millions of Democrats voted for a 74-year-old socialist
against the establishment choice, Hillary Clinton, as Bush-Romney-Ryan
Republicanism was massively repudiated in the Republican primaries.

As Trump said last week, "We got here because we switched from a policy of
Americanism — focusing on what's good for America's middle class — to a
policy of globalism, focusing on how to make money for large corporations who
can move their wealth and workers to foreign countries all to the detriment of
the American worker and the American economy."

Yesterday, news arrived that in May alone, the U.S. had run a trade
deficit in goods of $60 billion. This translates into an annual deficit of $720
billion in goods, or near 4 percent of our GDP wiped out by purchases of
foreign-made rather than U.S.-made goods.

In 40 years, we have not run a trade surplus. The most self-sufficient republic
in all of history now relies for its necessities upon other nations.

What might a Trumpian policy of Americanism over globalism entail?

A 10 to 20 percent tariff on manufactured goods to wipe out the trade deficit
in goods, with the hundreds of billions in revenue used to slash or eliminate
corporate taxes in the USA.

Every U.S. business would
benefit. Every global company would have an incentive not only to move
production here, but its headquarters here.

An "America first" immigration policy would secure the border, cut
legal immigration to tighten U.S. labor markets, strictly enforce U.S. laws
against those breaking into our country, and get tough with businesses that
make a practice of hiring people here illegally.

In Europe and America, corporate, financial
and political elites are increasingly disrespected and transnationalism is
receding. An anti-establishment, nationalist, populist wave is surging across Europe and the USA.

It is an anti-insider, anti-Clinton wave, and Trump could ride it to victory.

About Me

I believe the ACLU and public service unions are bigger threats than Islamic terrorists..If given the opportunity, I’d vote to impeach Justices Ginsburg and Breyer for violating their oaths to protect the Constitution and failure to observe its separation of powers..I believe in freedom of religion for everyone..I am a pro-life Christian but I do not try to push my religious beliefs on others..As for "same sex marriage”, I don't care one way or the other as long as no church or member of the clergy is ever required to perform one against their will..Regardless of a persons sexual preference, it should not be on public display..I believe private matters should be kept private..I think affirmative action is just a euphemism for reverse discrimination..I believe climate change to be a natural occurring cycle not caused by Humans...I believe "birthright citizenship" for the children of Illegal aliens to be unconstitutional..I am an unapologetic supporter of almost any means necessary to defend American lives, including milder forms of torture such as water-boarding"